Commonwealth Games 2006 - Melbourne - 15 t/m 26 Maart

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Op vrijdag 3 maart 2006 22:46 schreef pfaf het volgende:
Geen cricket?

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New Delhi's bid hits hurdle
February 2006

NEW DELHI (AP) - New Delhi's hopes of including cricket in the 2010 Commonwealth Games hit a big hurdle Monday as the Indian cricket board refused to use the Twenty20 format proposed by the International Cricket Council.

"India will not participate in any tournament with the Twenty20 format" in which each team bats for 20 overs, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said after a meeting of its high-powered working committee.

"We don't want to play the Twenty20 version of the game for purely cricket reasons," said N. Srinivasan, treasurer of the Indian board, which Monday discussed the ICC's circular on the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) proposal to include cricket in the 2010 games.

Cricket has been played in the Commonwealth Games only once, in 1998 in Malaysia, and the 50-over version was used. It will not be played in the games in March in Melbourne, Australia.

The number of sports at the Commonwealth Games was capped at 15 after team competitions were permitted for the 1998 games.

The CGF raised the ceiling on the number of sports for the 2010 games after New Delhi proposed to include archery, billiards and snooker, cricket, tennis and judo besides the 15 sports already approved. The decision on the inclusion of any new sport will be made on March 10.

Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the 2010 Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee, slammed India's cricket officials for dragging their feet on the issue of its inclusion in the biggest sporting event to be staged in the country since the 1982 Asian Games.

"Time is running out ... India's cricket board needs to quickly decide whether or not it wants to be part of the Commonwealth Games," Kalmadi said.

"Several countries are involved, but the Indian board has to take the lead if cricket is to feature in New Delhi's Commonwealth Games," said Kalmadi, who is also president of the Indian Olympic Association.

He said cricket may not figure among the sports for the 2010 games with just six weeks left for CGF's final decision.

The CGF termed cricket as "an exemplary Commonwealth sport" during its executive board meeting in New Delhi four months ago.

Even as the Indian cricket board refused to play the Twenty20 version, organizers said they would welcome cricket in any version.

"We're keen to have cricket in the Commonwealth Games, be it Twenty20 or the 50-50 version," said Randhir Singh, secretary-general of the Indian Olympic Association.

"We've sought the inclusion of cricket as a sport, and are keen that the best players represent their countries," Singh told The Associated Press.

"It's for cricket officials to decide what version of the game they want to offer to the Commonwealth Games," said Singh, who is also a vice-president of the Commonwealth Games Federation.

The idea of including the Twenty20 format in New Delhi came from the ICC, which did not want to dilute its existing limited-overs international program.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2006 20:51 schreef Joost-mag-het-weten het volgende:
leuke openingsceremonie inderdaad

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 15:03 schreef Leatherface het volgende:

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Klopt. Maar een "Europese Spelen" zou erg moeilijk van de grond te krijgen zijn.

Probeer al die sportbonden maar eens op 1 lijn te krijgen. Bovendien zijn er al tal van zulke evenementen en zal het lastig worden hier voor een plek op de kalender in te ruimen.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2006 15:07 schreef rubbereend het volgende:
ik weet niet of dat zo de publieke interesse ten goede komt, vaak moet het publiek uit de ragio komen waar een EK is. En als je dan meerdere EK's bij elkaar gooit betwijfel ik of je daar zoveel meet publiek mee haalt.